The US president has harboured a months-long feud with Spain after it rejected his call to increase NATO defence funds.
The meeting was supposed to be the prelude to the purchase of Finnish icebreaker ships.
But as United States President Donald Trump welcomed Finland’s President Alexander Stubb to the Oval Office on Thursday, he veered into a discussion of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) — and his ongoing feud with one of its members, Spain.
At a NATO summit in June, Spain was the most prominent holdout against Trump’s push to increase defence spend
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